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1 Peseta Rodonyà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Rodonyà (Municipality of Rodonyà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 92 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black on a light orange underprint of interlaced circles forming a continuous geometric pattern across the entire field. A rectangular border frames the central text block, with the face value numerals '1'00' placed at upper left and right. The main inscription states the issuing authority and payment obligation in Catalan, dated May 1937. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in dark blue, centred on a bold typographic rendering of the face value '1'00' set within a rectangular ruled frame. The frame is enclosed within a lozenge-shaped dotted guilloche border, lending a geometric, art-deco quality to the composition. The printer's imprint 'IMP. BARNADAS - VENDRELL' appears in small capitals below the central vignette. |
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Rodonyà is a tiny municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona — in 1937, its population barely exceeded a few hundred souls. Like dozens of similarly small Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, the Ajuntament resorted to issuing its own paper emergency currency after the Republic's coinage effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted within months of the July 1936 uprising. These hyper-local emissions, collectively known as "moneda local de necessitat," were technically illegal under Republican monetary law but tolerated out of sheer practical necessity.
Arts Gràfiques Barnadas in El Vendrell printed for several surrounding municipalities during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance across a cluster of Alt Camp issues. Turró catalogues this emission as #2193.